Gramalaya
Website: Gramalaya
Website Link: https://gramalaya.org
Description: Gramalaya, thirty three years ago aims to provide sustainable sanitation solutions. It works directly and through partners to implement a community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach to mobilise communities and schools to eliminate open defecation.
Gramalaya enters a community and conducts about the importance of WASH. It performs a mapping exercise with the community to help them identify basic sanitation needs. Together they develop a strategy to eliminate open defecation.
Simultaneously, it conducts weekly hygiene education sessions in schools and trains teachers to do the same. Gramalaya facilitates the formation of School MHM clubs, run by adolescent school children. who monitor sanitation behaviors. Gramalaya aids construction or repair of these facilities in schools.
Gramalaya links schools and communities with the Swacch Bharat Abhiyan to enable refurbishment for toilet construction.
Gramalaya assists with the creation and training of Association for water, Sanitation and Hygiene (AWASH) committees, consisting of community members including adolescent girls, who conduct household visits and focus group discussions to educate the community about WASH using IEC materials developed by Gramalaya.
